Abstract:
The main objective in doing the present study is to investigate the sustainable development ofhydropower plants in two adjacent basins being located in northeast of Turkey, which are the Coruhriver basin being the least problem river of Turkey in respect to international cooperation as comparedwith Turkey's other trans-boundary waters and the Eastern Black Sea Basin (EBSB) having greatadvantages from the view point of small hydropower potential or hydropower potential without storage among 25 hydrological basins in Turkey. The contribution of the hydropower energy potentialin these basins to reconstruction of Turkey electricity structure is investigated and a comparison inbetween is carried out. Finally, it is found that the EBSB will be corresponded from 8.3% and 10.3%of nowadays total electricity energy production and net electricity consumption of Turkey, while Coruh river basin will provide 7.40% and 9.19% of total electric generation and electricity consumption of Turkey, respectively, after all hydropower projects within these basins are commissioned. In other words, one-fifth of Turkey's electricity consumption will be met from northeast of Turkey. For this reason, development studies and investments in the hydropower sector should be encouraged and supported and projects within these basins should be put into operation assoon as possible.
